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The Marketplace of IdeasSun, 18 Feb 2018 05:21:21 +0200en-UShourly1Alice Walker’s July 4th Betrayal of Liberalismhttp://blogs.timesofisrael.com/alice-walkers-july-4th-betrayal-of-liberalism/
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/alice-walkers-july-4th-betrayal-of-liberalism/#commentsThu, 04 Jul 2013 15:28:43 +0000http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=142308The celebrated author of the ‘Color Purple,’ Alice Walker, has received a lot of negative attention in the Israeli and Jewish media lately for an open letter she penned to Alicia Keys in early June asking the singer to join the BDS movement against Israel and cancel her upcoming July 4th Tel Aviv concert. While […]

]]>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/alice-walkers-july-4th-betrayal-of-liberalism/feed/3Will Bibi betray the ‘arc of history’?http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/will-bibi-betray-the-arc-of-history/
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/will-bibi-betray-the-arc-of-history/#respondThu, 21 Feb 2013 12:48:46 +0000http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104092The January 22nd election results have handed sitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a historic opportunity to reform Israeli society and secure for himself a positive, substantive legacy of social reform. The media and political pundits focusing more on the political intrigue surrounding the coalition negotiations largely seem to be missing the historic gravity of the […]

]]>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/will-bibi-betray-the-arc-of-history/feed/0Tzipi Hotoveli’s Israel: Left, Right & Centerhttp://blogs.timesofisrael.com/tzipi-hotovelis-israel-left-right-center/
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/tzipi-hotovelis-israel-left-right-center/#commentsMon, 21 Jan 2013 22:56:18 +0000http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=96748The day before the Israeli general elections David Remnik, the editor of the New Yorker, published a scathing critique of what he sees as the new emerging right within Israeli politics. Remnik employs over 9,000 words in his article, “The Party Faithful: The settlers move to annex the West Bank—and Israeli politics,” to portray the […]